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November 6, 1883 (Park); near Amagansett, N. Y., about August 15, 

 1885 Dutcher); Montauk Point, N. Y., about November 1, 1888 

 (Dutcher); Saybrook, Conn., October 20, 1887 (Clark); Cranston, 

 R. L, 1857 (Howe and Sturtevant); Falmouth, Me., October 14, 1889 

 (Brock); Pictou, N. S., about October, 1874 (McKinlay); and New- 

 foundland, about 1859 (Jones). Thus there are at least 14 records 

 of the corn crake in North America south of Greenland, all but one of 

 them in the fall. 



The species ranges across Europe and Asia east to the valley of the 

 Yenesei, and to Maskat, Arabia. It winters in Africa. 



Fig. 16.— Corn crake ( Crex crex). 

 PURPLE GALLINULB. Ionornis martinicus (Linnaeus). 



Range. — Tropical and subtropical America; north regularly to 

 southern United States; casually to southern Canada; south through 

 the West Indies and Central America to Ecuador and Paraguay. 



The real home of the purple gallinule is in Middle America, the West 

 Indies, and South America. In the latter country the species extends 

 south to Iguape, Brazil (Lhering); Buenos Aires, Argentina (Dab- 

 bene); and Androas, Ecuador (Sharpe). It is common in the Lesser 

 and Greater Antilles and throughout Middle America west to San 

 Bias, Tepic (Lamb), to the Rio de Coahuana, Colima (Lawrence), and 



